Social Issues

20120513-192736-pic-114241329.jpg

The state of North Carolina, where voters recently approved amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage, was once a bright spot for President Obama but now has become a sore subject for Democrats. (Associated Press)

SPAIN.jpg

Demonstrators play drums as they march in a protest to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the "Indignados" movement in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 12, 2012. Spanish activists angered by grim economic prospects planned nationwide demonstrations Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of their protest movement that inspired similar groups in other countries. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

GREECE.jpg

Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, left, meets with Greek President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Saturday, May 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis, Pool)

550544be6144620d0f0f6a706700b369.jpg

FILE - In this May 10, 2012, file photo House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, takes questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. "I'm gonna stay focused on jobs, thanks," Boehner said the day after President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage swirled through the political world. "The president can talk about it all he wants. I'm gonna stay focused on what the American people want us to stay focused on," he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Seau Service Football_Hasc.jpg

Pastor Miles McPherson of the Rock Church, a former NFL football player, holds up a photo of Junior Seau as Seau's casket rests behind McPherson at Seau's burial on Friday, May 11, 2012, in Oceanside. Seau committed suicide the week prior. (Associated Press)

20120510-203904-pic-210831870.jpg

"My question for President Obama is, 'Where is your plan to stop these automatic cuts from hollowing out our defenses?' " - House Speaker John A. Boehner

20120510-202746-pic-506877639.jpg

In this May 10, 2012 photo, Claudia Solorio holds her daughter, Kimberly Magdeleno, 4, as nurses give her a whooping cough booster shot at a health clinic in Tacoma, Wash. State health officials declared an epidemic as the number of pertussis cases has soared this year. (Associated Press/ File)

HOMELESS_20120510_100_05101419.jpeg

"Don't despair, the money's there," says Kesh Ladduwahetty (center), a volunteer with D.C. for Democracy, during a rally at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 10, 2012. She told D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown that there is $240 million in surplus funding from the FY 2011 budget, $65 million from the FY 2012 budget, and that the city could raise a potential $20 million more by increasing the alcohol excise tax. She and other community services organizations are hoping for $32 to $40 million in funding in the FY 2013 budget for things like affordable housing and homeless services. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

HOMELESS_20120510_064_05101415.jpeg

A woman who was part of the "A Day in the Strife" rally at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 10, 2012 holds up a drawing indicating her displeasure with budget cuts. About 200 people from a coalition of grassroots organizations, community services groups and D.C. homeless citizens converged on the Wilson building Thursday to ask council members to allocate funding to homeless services and affordable housing in the FY 2013 budget. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Vietnam Foreign Adopt_Live.jpg

**FILE** Children waiting for adoptions are seen June 12, 2006, in a house held by a lawyer specialized in adoptions in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Associated Press)